Samantha Harper (b. 1943) is an American Broadway, film, and TV actress as well as a poet and novelist. actress, who appeared as Mrs. L.W., one of the advertising 'pod people' that Mork has a nightmare about in Season 2's Invasion of the Mork Snatchers.
Biography[]
Samantha Harper was born in 1946 in Batesville, Mississippi. She attended South Panola High School. She graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1964 and went on to earn a Master’s Degree in Performing Arts, Speech, and Theatre at the University of Illinois in 1965.[1]
Harper married William 'Bill' Macy, well known for his role in Norman Lear's Maude opposite Beatrice Arthur, and Harper's co-star in 'Oh! Calcutta! (1972)', (1975 - 17 October 2019) (his death)
She has written the novel Two Sisters Cafe with Elena Yates Dulo in 2010 and published a compilation of her poems called Loving Men in 2013.
Sometimes goes as Samantha Harpur or Samantha Harper Macy.
Career[]
Samantha Harper made her Off Broadway and Broadway debut in the original run of the long running 'erotic revue' Oh! Calcutta! (Jun 17, 1969 - Aug 12, 1972), where the cast appear nude, and where Harper met her future husband William 'Bill' Macy. Her screen debut came in the same production, the film version of Oh! Calcutta! debuting in 1972. Harper went on to make several appearances on television, including the Bea Arthur led 'Maude' which co-starred her husband, before she appeared as regular cast member in Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1976), part of a 13 year career in front of the camera.[2] [3]
Filmography[]
| Year | TV Series | Episode(s) | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | The Bob Newhart Show | Fit, Fat and Forty One | Nurse Burke |
| 1975 | Hot l Baltimore | Ainsley's Secret | Evie |
| 1973-1975 | Maude | Maude and the Medical Profession
The Office Party The Christmas Party |
Shirley
Edna Audrey |
| 1976 | Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman | 29 episodes | Roberta Wolashek |
| 1977 | Delvecchio | The Madness Within: Part 2 | Lorraine Shonski |
| 1977 | The David Steinberg Show | Episode #1.20 | Pamela Kitchener |
| 1977 | Brothers | Joan Kline | |
| 1977 | I Never Promised You a Rose Garden | Occupational Therapist | |
| 1979 | Stockard Channing in Just Friends | Last of the Red Hot Tubs
Health May Be Hazardous |
Miss Yarnell
Ingrid |
| 1980 | Mork & Mindy | Invasion of the Mork Snatchers | Mrs. L.W. |
| 1980 | Phyl & Mikhy | The Seduction of Mikhail Orlov | Liz |
| 1984 | AfterMASH | Fever Pitch | Eva |
| 1985 | Tales from the Darkside | Lifebomb | Mrs. Lianne Martin |
| 1985 | Days of Our Lives | Episode #1.5034
Episode #1.5037 Episode #1.5038 |
Silver |
| 1986 | Hill Street Blues | I Come on My Knees | Lois |
| Year | Movie | Role | |
| 1972 | Oh! Calcutta! | Helen / Dumb Nurse / Various Roles | |
| 1976 | Bound for Glory | Amy Martin | |
| 1982 | I Ought to Be in Pictures | Larane | |
| 1982 | Lookin' to Get Out | Lillian - Jerry's Ex-Wife | |
| Year | TV Movie | Role | |
| 1976 | Victory at Entebbe | Nan Peyser | |
| 1980 | The Promise of Love | Dorothy | |
| 1981 | Stockers | ||
| 1984 | Torchlight | Sandy | |
Mork & Mindy[]
Harper appeared as Mrs. L.W. (from Bangor, Maine), one of the antenna wearing, advertising Pod People under 'Mr. Persuasion', that Mork encounters inside the TV World he dreams he is in during his nightmare, and then again later in the apartment as the nightmare pursues him. Mrs. L.W. is the first 'person' Mork meets alongside another woman talking about how soft her hands are, and challenging Mork to tell which one of them is the mother and which is the daughter. Revealing she's the mother, whose hands used to be rough and red until she discovered 'Sparkle Dish' dish washing liquid, loving how her hands feel now her hand is taken by 'Mr. L.W.' who pronounces that he thinks he'll keep her.